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   Max Demian to Commander Kinsey   
   Re: cooling via natural gas, was: Gas sh   
   22 Nov 22 11:49:53   
   
   XPost: alt.home.repair, sci.electronics.design, uk.d-i-y   
   From: max_demian@bigfoot.com   
      
   On 21/11/2022 18:56, Commander Kinsey wrote:   
   > On Sat, 19 Nov 2022 08:24:29 -0000, Ian Jackson   
   >  wrote:   
   >> In message , Commander Kinsey   
   >>  writes   
   >>> On Tue, 15 Nov 2022 15:04:17 -0000, Tim R    
   >>> wrote:   
      
   >>>> I would think most of the Old Testament laws - dietary restrictions,   
   >>>> clothing restrictions, circumcision, etc. - are exactly the same. The   
   >>>> purpose is simply to maintain a separate identity.   
   >>>   
   >>> I thought only Jews did the barbaric practise of circumcision?   
   >>> Something they should be locked up for.   
   >>   
   >> No - also Muslims, and also common in many parts of the world (although   
   >> it's mainly the Jews who make a big religious thing of it).   
   >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumcision   
   >   
   > You'd think religious folk would consider the penis designed correctly   
   > by god, so why alter it?   
   >   
   > And atheists would consider it correctly evolved for purpose, so why   
   > alter it?   
      
   Why doesn't it retract when not in use, like dogs? And why oh why are   
   mammalian testicles outside the body? Birds manage with internal testes.   
      
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   Max Demian   
      
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